Paddy Kehoe

Multimedia Journalist

Paddy Kehoe has been working in journalism for 27 years. A former teacher, he began his career with In Dublin and Magill magazines, and he wrote theatre reviews for the Sunday Tribune and film reviews for Irish Stage & Screen magazine.

Kristen Stewart plays the actress Jean Seberg in this tasteful recreation of her tragic Hollywood years

Seberg: a brilliant tour de force from Kristen Stewart

Seberg is a thoughtfully intelligent film, dealing with American actress Jean Seberg's tragic Hollywood years, 1968 to 1971, following her reinvention as a Parisian star in the Jean-Luc Godard classic, À Bout de Souffle (Breathless).

Movie Review • 10 Jan 20

László Krasznahorkai: master of the imagination roaming free

Baron Wenckheim's Homecoming by László Krasznahorkai

Bayern Munich and the rearguard tactics of the Brazilian player Dante Bonfim Costa Santos are just part of the rich tapestry that the Hungarian novelist László Krasznahorkai has created in the latest of his works translated into English.

Books • 13 Jan 20

Vincent Lacoste and Isaure Multrier in Amanda

Amanda and a Parisian idyll shattered

Amanda has that pressing, anticipatory feel of a Michael Haneke movie, an air of slightly smug urban contentment about to be shattered.

Movie Review • 02 Jan 20

Long Day's Journey Into Night

Dense and layered, inscrutable and withholding of its essence, Long Day's Journey into Night (not to be confused with the Eugene O'Neill play of the same name) creates ever-increasing mystery

Movie Review • 28 Dec 19

Kyoto scene from 1896. Kyoto was centuries prior to that the so-called (Japanese) Capital,`the only place for a civilised person to be.'

Reviewed: Travels With A Writing Brush

This fascinating compendium gathers 1,000 years of Japanese travel writing, involving perilous treks over mountains and along dangerous shores, with intense poetic epiphanies guaranteed.

Books • 20 Dec 19

Julia Hülsmann: exquisite poise and a David Bowie cover in an album of challenging music

Album Review:Julia Hülsmann Quartet - Not far From Here

German pianist Julia Hülsmann and her quartet have delivered an absorbing, at times challenging album in Not Far From Here, featuring compositions from all the players

Music • 19 Dec 19

Still wowing the faithful: 67-year old John Scofield performing in Rome last February

Album review: John Scofield Hand Jive

Funk, restrained or lively, is the dominant note in this session recorded at The Power Station in New York in 1983, featuring the revered guitarist nestled into a good groove with his ensemble.

Music • 18 Dec 19

Tom Holland's vast survey of Christendom ranges from Moses to (Angela) Merkel, from Babylon to Beverly Hills.

Reviewed: Dominion by Tom Holland

Tom Holland's study of the development of Christendom proves an accessible, pleasurable read as befits a natural communicator and presenter of highly-regarded TV series on allied subjects.

Books • 19 Dec 19

Nicole Flattery: her intriguing, quirky stories were published earlier this year

Books for under the tree - recommended Christmas reads

They don't have holly or tinsel on them, but these books are built to last and will make worthwhile Christmas prezzies for your bookish friends and family members. Paddy Kehoe assembles some of the top choices from 2019 and some extra.

Books • 12 Dec 19

Imelda Marcos - in Lauren Greenfield's film, she is 86, and engineering a return to power for the Marcos dynasty

The Kingmaker - Imelda and the 'conjugal dictatorship'

Lauren Greenfield's latest film shows how the Marcos legacy endures and is linked with current President Duterte's regime as family scion Ferdinand 'Bong Bong' Marcos campaigns in the Philippines' Vice-Presidential elections in 2016.

Movie Reviews • 19 Dec 19